Marshall Kirkpatrick argues that “social” news sites fail on breaking world news
Compared coverage of Castro stepping down across several social news sites, decides that mainstream news is still the best bet for breaking coverage. Curious that there was no talk of Newsvine.
Paul Smith, Everyblock dev, talks about one of the most-asked questions: why they decided to roll their own map platform instead of use a third party like Microsoft, Yahoo or Google
Movement Map: 1hr in Front of the TV. I particularly like the cat. [via Kottke]
Office Master is just one of the many Microsoft Source Fource action figures you can collect. [via Daring Fireball]
The same online gun store sold to both the VA Tech shooter and the NIU shooter
Also - you can buy a handgun ONLINE!?!
AngryJournalist.com - Why are you angry today?
Anonymously share what makes you mad as hell and why you’re not going to take it any more. If this site didn’t exist, David Simon would have to create it after The Wire finishes.
Samuel Adams hop sharing program
The price of hops has gone through the roof due to increased demand and worldwide shortages - to help out micro and craft breweries, Sam Adams is selling 20,000 pound of hops at cost! I’m not a huge Sam Adams fan, but this is awesome.
There’s a setting just below ‘cotton’ and just above ‘wool’ that works pretty well. ‘Silk’ is also a really good setting.
—Stephen Weir, Contra Costa County (California) registrar, on ironing primary ballots so that they’ll be machine readable. This, in the greatest democracy in the world.
Given that the ‘open here’ information not normally visible prior to opening - is its purpose to re-assure the user that they have made the right choice?
Computer Administrative Debris
“One of the challenges of interface design is to reduce computer administrative debris while maintaining a high standard of usability.”